1The Courier Authentication Library is a generic authentication API used 2for two purposes: 3 41. Read the name of a mail account. Determine the local account's home 5 directory, and system userid and groupid. 62. Read an account name, and a password. If valid, determine the 7 account's home directory, system userid, and groupid. 8 9The base package only installs the authpam authentication module to 10obtain account information and passwords using PAM 11 12Other plugin authentication modules are provided: 13 14 net/courier-authlib-ldap OpenLDAP 15 databases/courier-authlib-mysql MySQL 16 databases/courier-authlib-pgsql PostgreSQL 17 databases/courier-authlib-userdb libc db based 18 databases/courier-authlib-usergdbm gdbm dependant 19 mail/courier-authlib-vchkpw vpopmail/vchkpw 20 21Install them as occasion demands. 22